HUNTINGTON BEACH – Police are searching for a man who robbed a bank Thursday morning at Brookhurst Street and Garfield Avenue.

Huntington Beach police received a report of a robbery the Bank of the West at 19006 Brookhurst St. around 9:45 a.m., Lt. Tom Donnelly said. Huntington Beach and FBI investigators arrived at the scene after the robber fled. Witnesses did not see or hear him leave.

Customers were in the bank at the time of the robbery, but no one was injured, Donnelly said.

The robber was described as a 6-foot, 2-inch, heavyset Hispanic man with light skin. He was wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball hat, a black hooded sweat shirt and jeans.

Anyone with information can contact Sgt. Dale Shields at 714-536-5947.

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